FTL: Faster Than Light is a real-time strategy roguelike game created by indie developer Subset Games, which was released for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux in September 2012. In the game, the player controls the crew of a single spacecraft, holding critical information to be delivered to an allied fleet, while being pursued by a large rebel fleet.
The player must guide the spacecraft over eight sectors, each with planetary systems and events procedurally generated in a roguelike fashion, while facing rebel and other hostile forces, recruiting new crew, and outfitting and upgrading their ship. Combat takes place in pausable real time, and if the ship is destroyed or all of its crew lost, the game ends, forcing the player to restart with a new ship.
The player controls a spacecraft capable of traveling faster-than-light (FTL). It belongs to the Galactic Federation, which is on the verge of defeat in a war with an exclusively human and xenophobic rebel faction, simply called the Rebellion. The player's crew intercepts a data packet from the rebel fleet containing information that could throw the rebels into disarray and ensure a Federation victory. The goal is to reach Federation headquarters, waiting several space sectors away, while avoiding destruction from hostile ships or by the pursuing rebel fleet.
At game start, the player chooses a spacecraft to start with, each one with a different layout and containing a different mix of weapons, systems (piloting, engines, weapons, oxygen, etc.), and crew. The game randomly generates eight space sectors similar to roguelike games, with roughly twenty waypoints (called "beacons") in each sector. The player must "jump" the ship between waypoints, normally unaware what awaits at each point, and make headway to an "exit" point leading to the next sector. The player’s ship can accumulate scrap (in-game currency), equipment (ranging from weapons to drones and various ship augmentations) and extra crew members by maximizing the number of beacons (and hence events/other ships) they visit, but each encounter has the potential to deal damage to their ship and/or crew. The player can revisit waypoints, but each warp jump consumes fuel and causes the rebel fleet to advance in each sector, and slowly take over more of the beacons. Once a beacon is taken over, jumping to the beacon will result in an encounter with a dangerous elite rebel fighter, while only ever granting the player 1 unit of fuel upon defeat. In later sectors, enemies are tougher and have better weaponry but also yield increased rewards when beaten.
There are eight different species of crew in the game: Humans, Engi, Zoltan, Mantis, Rock, Slug, Lanius, and Crystal. Members of these species can all be acquired by the player or found manning enemy ships. Each species has different strengths and weaknesses based on their physiology.
FTL is currently 75% off in steam
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upbearing has been restored. thank you for bearing with us :hexbear-static-logo:
basically, if the site goes down again, we'll see if we can bring it back much faster this time by disabling upbears and edits.
but all of that is only a short term band-aid anyway.
hopefully the supreme court will give us a couple days at least before banning gay marriage or vegetables or something.
Wait so how much systems processes is dedicated to upbears/dopamine exactly?
in short, keeping track of a post and its upbears is cheap. figuring out whether you personally have upbeared is costly with the current structure of things. it doesn't inherently have to be, but that's how things are right now.
mods are tracking voting patterns, the cabal has been thwarted again!
Overnight camp boss just decided to traumatize 500 children on a whim by dropping the Roe v. Wade situation on them unprompted, without prior notice, and throwing the situation to an untrained college student bloc to damage control, and then telling us we can’t actually do that since the kids have to go to bed so we have to tell them in a sentence to basically shut the fuck up and go to bed. Depraved behavior :jesus-christ:
Hey kids, you know how video games have boss fights?
Wanna do one in real life?
Sodomy was banned in all of the colonies at the time the constitution was written so from a constitutional law standpoint he [Justice Thomas] is correct.
Average redditor on the historicity of Supreme Court jurisprudence.
if we accept Thomas's method of constitutional interpretation, Thomas is correct, actually
blistering intellects over at STEM.com
cw
looking into this and found this choice quote:
In January 1777, Thomas Jefferson recommended that the crimes of rape, sodomy, and bestiality should all be punished with castration when revising the old laws and methods for establishing new laws in Fredericksburg, Virginia
but Mr. Jefferson, i noticed you still have your balls
Wow I cant wait for martial rape to be legal again!(Somewhat genuine fear, unless I'm about to be told that its actually legal in over a dozen states or something)
I really cant take it
Libs told us to vote for biden "for the supreme court" Now that biden has been shown to be fucking useless, they're pivoting to bernie sanders and fucking susan sarandon
Susan Sarandon is so perfect in terms of how liberals view pop culture.
It wasn't enough that basically every single Avengers actor told America to vote for Hillary, because Susan Sarandon said not to.
It's not enough they have this huge media apparatus, but everyone must conform to it as well.
It's such a warped sense of reality. Hillary lost because enough people don't watch movies directed by women or something.
America must be destroyed. There will be no justice in this world until every last building in this evil place has been reduced to rubble, until there isn’t a single brick stacked upon another.
I somehow never made this connection until now, but America straight up put the trail of tears guy on their $20 bill???
it's extra ironic because he's also one of the "no centralized currency" guys
but i think they're switching it to Susan B Anthony?
edit: actually it's Harriet Tubman and they have been talking about making the switch since 2014 and still haven't done it :agony-deep:
I've heard that he was put on the bill as a fuck you because they knew he'd hate it.
Contrary to the many speculations online, the Harriet Tubman $20 bill is on track to debut to the public in 2030
Weren’t they like… supposed to change it to Harriet Tubman last year???
"The Act was signed by Andrew Jackson and it was strongly enforced under his administration and that of Martin Van Buren, which extended until 1841"
pinterest is the worst website. all it does is clog up image searches
The chuds have been quick to pick up on the hypocrisy of liberals who eagerly applied the terms sedition and treason to the January 6th riot, but now find themselves caught between their own base and the institutions. The whole exercise, both in congress and in the mainstream media has been an absolute disaster.
The problem was never that the Capitol got torn up. The problem is that the chuds were the ones doing it. But feed such an obvious fact through the media and the message which comes out the other end is "sedition is bad. We need more cops and more feds to clamp down on sedition."
In spite of everything which has happened, they remained convinced that the legitimacy of the institutions was beyond reproach. They threw all their chips in on these rickety institutions, and now the Supreme Court has joined Joe Brandon and the Congress in the toilet of public approval. Most likely permanently.
Liberals have staked out a position for themselves as the lone defenders of an indefensible, dying system. Once again, the cops will work hand in hand with fascist vigilantes, like they did in the George Floyd uprising, and on January 6th, and it will be the liberals scoldingly reminding their victims that violence is not the answer.
They are completely powerless. The only thing preventing the left from removing their heads are the deepest wells of reactionary violence to their right, who would just as happily remove their heads. They have control over neither. Very late praetorian guard hours for a country which explicitly views itself as a reconstruction of the Roman empire.
My poor millennial brain cannot comprehend anti-abortion takes coming from anyone whose brain wasn't fully marinated in a frothing-at-the-mouth Christian psycho bubble from birth
These under 30 gamer and anime pfp types sneering about abortion is just so bizarre to me
4 of the top 5 posts on r/pics are currently upside-down american flags (plus another one further down the page)
New megathread Nerds :posting: we are watching the 2 sonic movies right now in the Hexbear cytube :sicko-hexbear:
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I wish I had the foresight to know we were watching those so that I wouldn't have already done it 😔
JK. I can never get enough of Idris Elba Knuckles.
